Salt Lake Herald | 1908-02-09 | Page 18 | Sermon on Honest Sport

Sermon on Honest Sport A Myron nd the clever St S1 Louis sporting scribe attended a mis lary mary conference rence in hi that city the other night and the next morning the tho owing sermon which by y the way should bo ho carefully read by everybody rested in sport appeared in his columns American sportsmen are awakening to the fact that only honest square agers lagers and promoters should be tolerated The skinflints who played the sports for suckers and stole their ey are arc not so much in evidence as they were a few years ago Promoters and principals who fooled the public with fakes and fixed rUng events we Me now being thoroughly discredited d Without the of the honest sporting editors edor they cannot cam ot rob and Henceforth Hen orth the faker will have hae a hard road to travel He may ma be able fools fool the be sports in rural communities but in the large centers his name t aud ud Put Use Ise 1st by alert and honest sporting porting f writers who make it a business fraud they will find It extremely difficult to put one over on dear people I The dawn of a widespread era of honesty in sport Is breaking The fakers fixers and crooks are reading the handwriting on the wall wait and ng in the if For the honest promoter for the honest athlete who never attempts to in or defraud the public there is 15 always a royal welcome For the crooked promoter manager press agent or athlete there is not li of a future The e honest watchdogs of the newspaper fraternity will bark out warnings inform the sports that things have a queer look To queer the crooks and takers fakers is an important duty To as far possible drive them out of sport is one of oC the toe privileges of all honest hon st sty i By y to patronize q sporting events the public can eim canko an ko out the scoundrels by b exposing shady transactions the writers can kly place sport on a much higher plane Sportsmen should encourage the thelI Honest nest Man but never nevor hesitate to place the obstacles possible in the pathway of at the dishonest who cheat cheaL il 1